Acclaimed pop experimentalists Metronomy compile the latest Late Night Tales, the third of 2012 and 29th in the decade long series. Metronomy, the effective alias of the talented Joseph Mount, have thus far released three albums, starting with the jagged electro manoeuvres of their debut Pip Paine (Pay The 5000 You Owe), through to their two albums on Because, Nights Out, where Mount first sang, and last years brilliant Mercury-nominated The English Riviera. As a pop group, Metronomy that are more Four Tet than Fab Four, though with a sense of adventure that wouldve made the Fabs proud. Their outing under the Late Night Tales banner journeys through the inspirations of the bands ever moving sound - along with a few surprises. Mounts old favourite Autechre is present and correct, but then so are Kate and Anna McGarrigle and the Sun Ra of hip hop Sa-Ra Creative Partners. Joining Sa-Ra on the hip hop front, weve got Tweets ace Drunk from her Hummingbird album alongside OutKast Prototype, spiced with some Doctor
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